Blade Runner

OK so I decided to do a classic but definitely one of my favorite films of all time, "Blade Runner". I wanted to feature the character of Pris, so my keywords were:

sexy

danger

noir

rain

thunder

lightning

I tired at first in Illustrator (where I'm quite comfortable) to use only basic shapes, as a test run for AE but found it too limiting...

yikes.

So I built it in Illustrator and inported it as both source and reference:

I only used the hair and face shape from AI but built the eyes in AE. I had to figure out how to use a track matte for the eyes to contain all the shapes and wound up using the "card wipe" efffect for the wipe transistion on the "BladeRunner" title at the end. I also inserted some audio. I pre comped the whole thing and repeated it a few times to create a loop. Here's the finished animation: